Word: staying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Carter's audience listened attentively as he declared: "I am determined to have a SALT agreement with the Soviet Union without unwarranted delay." But he got his biggest hand when he turned to that other theme of the week: "We are determined to stay strong. We are not going to let the Soviet Union push us around. We are not going to be second...
...Carter rejected suggestions for import quotas and adopted a temporary program to pay producers up to 2? per lb. whenever the price of sugar dipped below 13.5? per Ib. The program was to stay in effect until Congress approved the International Sugar Agreement to stabilize world prices at between 15? and 19? per Ib. through Government stockpiling. Instead, Congress amended the farm bill, which became law Oct. 1, with a program of loan supports, tariffs and import fees intended to satisfy producers of both kinds of sweetener...
...does Schlafly reconcile her career with her stay-at-home dogma? "My husband lets me do what I want to do," she says. "I have canceled speeches whenever my husband thought that I had been away from home too much." Besides, she adds, "when I fill out applications, I put down 'mother' as my occupation." She boasts that she breast-fed every one of her six children and later taught each of them how to read. Says she: "I work all the time. I'm organized. I've learned to budget every minute...
...elegant Carlyle Hotel two days to determine whether or not he had actually checked into his suite. At one point a maid burst into his room, found Beatty on the telephone and complained: "Nobody has slept in the bed again. I want to know?are you going to stay here tonight?" Finally Beatty sheepishly threw up his hands and announced, "Well, it looks like this hotel has blown my cover...
...When we concentrate on a material object, whatever its situation," said Vladimir Nabokov, "the very act of attention may lead to our involuntarily sinking into the history of that object. Novices must learn to skim over matter if they want matter to stay at the exact level of the moment. Transparent things, through which the past shines...